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Grey area: chilling past of world’s biggest brain collection

by Camille BAS-WOHLERT Agence France Presse Odense, Denmark (AFP) — Countless shelves line the walls of a basement at Denmark’s University of Odense, holding what is thought to be the world’s largest collection of brains. Preserved in formalin in large white buckets labelled with numbers, the collection was the life’s work of prominent Danish psychiatrist Erik Stromgren. Begun in 1945, it was a “kind of experimental research,” Jesper Vaczy Kragh, an expert in the history […]